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' RAME TUG GLIP.

No. 290,399. I K PatentedDeo. 18,1883.

JUSTIN H. CLEAR, OF

EETCE.

PATENT MAZEPPA, MINNESOTA.

HAME-TUG CLIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,399, dated December 18, 1883,

' Application filed April 23, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it nuty concern.-

Be it known that I, JUsTIN H. CLEAR, of Mazeppa, in the county of Wabasha and State of Minnesota, have invented an Improvement in Hame-Tug Clips; and the following is declared to be a description of the same.

Haines are usually provided with a staple extending out from the wood for receiving the clip of the trace or tug. These clips have been made or" metal, and in most instances the leather ofthe trace or tug is received between the clip. This is objectionable in appearance, and the strain is not uniform upon the tug. In some instances the tug has been passed around a metal stock in a metallic connection to the hame-staple. This, however, cannot'be applied by the harness-maker to the hamestaple, but must be connected by the party making the hame and staple.

My invention relates to a movable clip of metal that is open, so as to be slipped over the staple of the hame, and provided with a broad bearing for such staple, in combination with the trace or tug that is passed around such clip and secured both by rivets and sewing. By this improvement the clip becomes a protection to the trace where it surrounds the staple, and the clip is out of sight within the loop formed by the trace or tug, and thepsaid clip can be applied by the vharness-maker to the ordinary hame-staple.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of a portion of the hame tug and trace. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the hame-tug clip separate.

The haine and staple are of the ordinary character. At a, I have shown a portion of the "l hame, and b is the staple, secured to the metal plate as usual. l 40 The clip-plate d is made with two strap p0rtions, and with the central part, that comes into contact with the staple, of a width that corresponds, or nearly so, to the body part of such staple, and this clip is ol" wrought or malleable metal, so that it may be bent after it has been placed around thestaple, to bring the strap portions of the clip close together. Theleather trace or tug is passed through the staple b and bent double around and at the sides of the metal clip, so as to inclose the same, and the two parts c c of the trace are sewed together by lines of stitching near the edges, as shown, which come above and below the strap portions of the clip and extend nearly to the staple, so thatthe metal clip is covered up and almost excluded from view. The rivets at e e, passing through the leather and the strap portions of the clip, complete the connection of the parts and insure great strength and uniformity of strain upon the tug or trace.

I claim as my invention- The open malleable-metal clip d, having a broad loop that surrounds the haine-staple, in combination with the tug or trace passed around the clip and sewed above and below the strap portions, and the rivets passing through the trace and the clip, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this ltthday of April, A. I). v1883 JUSTIN n. CLEAR.

Witnesses:

JNO. B. PEIROE, y A. J. MYERs. i 

